Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:15 PM 1/10/98 -0400, you wrote: >Luggers, > >can anybody of you experts explain why I can not get a meter reading with >the M6, Viso III and Telyt 200? I am baffled. > >Andras Iklody-Szabo >Caracas / Venezuela > Sounds to me like your subject matter is dictating your meter reading. Remember that the M6 is a semi spot meter and at 200mm it's reading the central portion of a subject reasonably far away. You might have had a very dark part of the subject centered in your frame. That would make the meter attempt to expose for this dark part of the subject, which could be too dark for the existing f/stop (did have it wide open?), film, and shutter speed selections. In order to use a semi spot meter successfully with a long lens, you sometimes have to point the camera at a subject that exhibits an 18% grey density level, take the reading, then point the camera back to what the real subject is and take the photograph, WITHOUT changing the exposure reading you got from reading the neutral subject. R-Leica users do this all the time, albeit much simpler. Jim